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Brodie, Fawn McKay, 1915-1981.

Thomas Jefferson : an intimate history / Fawn M. Brodie ; introduction by Annette Gordon-Reed.

New York : W.W. Norton & Co., ©2010.

xxvi, 594 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm

A seminal biography of Thomas Jefferson and an exploration of his relationship with Sally Hemings. With a novelist's skill and a scholar's meticulous detail, Fawn M. Brodie portrays Thomas Jefferson as he wrestled with great issues of his time: revolution, religion, power, race, and love - ambivalences that exerted a subtle but powerful influence on his political ideas and his presidency. Brodie's biography was the first to set forth a convincing case that Thomas Jefferson was the father of children by his slave Sally Hemings. In a new introduction, Annette Gordon-Reed, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hemingses of Monticello, explores the impact of Brodie's groundbreaking book and explains why it is such a powerful account of one of our greatest and most elusive presidents--Publisher's description.

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 -- Relations with women.

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 -- Relations with slaves.

Hemings, Sally.

Originally published: 1974.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 559-569) and index.

The semi-transparent shadows -- The parents -- A sense of family -- A capacity for involvement -- A problem with the forbidden -- Martha Jefferson -- The revolutionary -- Jefferson and independence; the domestic problem -- The flight from power -- Jefferson and the war -- Jefferson writes a book -- The two Marthas -- The return to politics -- Restlessness and torment -- My head and my heart -- The second interlude -- Sally Hemings -- The revolutionary goes home -- The satellite sons -- Disillusionment in Eden -- Triangles at Monticello -- Candidate contre coeur -- Callender -- Jason -- Betrayal -- Jefferson under attack -- Death, hatred, and the use of silence -- Jefferson and Burr -- A genius for peace -- Like a patriarch of old -- Writer of letters -- The Monticello tragedy -- Reminiscences of Madison Hemings -- Reminiscences of Israel Jefferson -- "My head and my heart" -- The family denial.

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